The circular economy provides great opportunity for our planet. It presents the concept that in an industrial age we can use and regenerate natural resources whilst continuing to evolve with the challenges of exponential modernisation and the insatiable desire for growth. As the challenges are enormous and opportunities endless, it’s difficult to know where to start. Clayton Bristow lends some inspiration from Eliel Saarinen looking forwards and backwards from “a chair in a room”.

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The circular economy is an economic framework to keep resources in circulation for as long as possible to reduce our impact on the planet. More than recycling, the circular economy is an ecosystem of initiatives that requires structural change to the incumbent linear approach of dig, make, use, dump. A roadmap for value destruction.

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